The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
JOHN BURROUGHSGray hairs are death’s blossoms.
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Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
SOGYAL RINPOCHE -
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
BORIS JOHNSON -
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.
NICOLE KIDMAN -
I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.
BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI -
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSEN -
..you just get stoned, get the ideas in your head and then do ’em. And don’t bullshit. I mean that’s the thing about doin’ that guerrilla theatre. You be prepared to die to prove your point.
ABBIE HOFFMAN -
Meandering leads to perfection.
LAOZI -
You can’t make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.
GABRIELLE BERNSTEIN -
Be your own patch of sunlight.
SALONI VERMA -
His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN -
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
PETER DRUCKER -
Virtue has her heroes too As well as Fame and Fortune.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER -
I have the impression that if he didn’t complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom.
BORIS PASTERNAK -
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER